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noun

Aversion n.

A turning away. (Obs.) "Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness."

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. "Mutual aversion of races." "His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion." Note: It is now generally followed by to before the object. (See Averse.) Sometimes towards and for are found; from is obsolete. "A freeholder is bred with an aversion to subjection." "His aversion towards the house of York." "It is not difficult for a man to see that a person has conceived an aversion for him." "The Khasias... have an aversion to milk."

The object of dislike or repugnance. "Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire."

Synonyms: Antipathy; dislike; repugnance; disgust. See Dislike.

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Etymology of 'Aversion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Aversion" Quotes from Famous Books

... instantly seized upon; odd, eccentric and degraded personalities are caricatured, social foibles and vices pilloried, pomposity and sententiousness in the verses of the poets, particularly the tragedians, and most particularly in Euripides—the pet aversion and constant butt of Aristophanes' satire—are parodied. All is fish that comes to the Comic dramatists net, anything that will raise a laugh is ...

— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al

... the cavern's mouth, but once more she turned and looked at him, and it was she herself who stretched appealing arms. The boy's shyness and the woman's aversion to men vanished as in fire. They stood together in the hollow of the cave in one long embrace. He sought her mouth and kissed her, and, suffocating with joy, she escaped ...

— Marianson - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... pitched battle; and there were few things the worthy man seemed to enjoy more than a stand-up fight on level ground. A fair field and no favour was his delight, but climbing the hills was his mortal aversion. He was somewhat too corpulent and short of wind ...

— Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader • R.M. Ballantyne

... rather this complete aversion—on the part of the Count of Riverola toward the young Francisco, owed its origin to the total discrepancy of character existing between the father and son. Francisco was as amiable, generous-hearted, frank and ...

— Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds

... a dreamy thrill about some of those descriptions of town and country churches in conventional England which would suggest that he had no secularistic aversion to these modest usages. Perhaps, like Charles Darwin, he would have answered impertinent questions about his faith by pointing to just such patient unexcluding shrines ...

— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys

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